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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2010:099)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 48183

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version(s), fixing several bugs and one security issue :The DOCSIS dissector in Wireshark 0.9.6 through 1.0.12 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet trace file (CVE-2010-1455).